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Linux and Open Source News for 9th July 2007

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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Kernels Size: 43.03 MB Status: 1 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-07-09 13:32:27


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Open Source Software Size: 65.63 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-07-09 10:14:49


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: PCLinuxOS Size: 682.27 MB Status: 32 seeders and 91 leechers Added: 2007-07-09 03:40:36


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Source: slackintosh

Adrian Ulrich has announced the first release candidate of Slackintosh 12.0, an unofficial port of Slackware Linux to Apple's PowerPC computers: "I've uploaded some Slackintosh 12.0-BETA ISOs. Please note that this ISO release is not final and not tested very well (but installing it on my iBook2 worked .


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Source: 64studio

Daniel James has announced the first release candidate of 64 Studio 2.0, a Debian-based distribution with a collection of software for digital content creation: "We are glad to announce that 64 Studio 2.0-rc1 has been released. The code name for this release is shamelessly lifted from the second .


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Source: mepis

Warren Woodford has announced the release of antiX MEPIS 6.5, a light-weight MEPIS derivative designed for older computers: "MEPIS has announced the 'Spartacus' release of antiX, a lightweight derivative of MEPIS. AntiX is built and maintained by MEPIS a community member, as a free version of MEPIS for .


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Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: First look at Elive 1.0 News: Elive and Fedora interviews, Kubuntu and KDE 4, Mandriva's semantic desktop, Gentoo 2007.0 review Released last week: Slackware Linux 12.0, Damn Small Linux 3.4 Upcoming releases: Parsix GNU/Linux 0.90r1 Feedback: "Shame on you, DistroWatch!" Reader comments .



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Source: Linux Today

PolishLinux: "Some time ago I saw a chocolate bar made with Adobe Photoshop somewhere on the Internet. I thought that Gimp can’t do worse than and I got myself to work. It seemed to be quite easy "


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Source: Linux Today

Network World: "Gigantic."


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Source: Linux Today

Xlayn's Blog: "I'm big fan of Slackware Linux, I have used it since the 9.0 version, and I am very happy with this distribution, in the beginning was challenging to setup mostly because I was a newbie, today I am installing and reviewing the recently released version 12 in my toshiba l35-sp1011."


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Source: Linux Today

Mandriva: "The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries chose to migrate its local servers (about 400 machines) from Windows NT Server to Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0, within two years."


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "For the past few months Phil Dibowitz has been working on writing a Linux driver for this $250 USD remote control."


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Source: Linux Today

ThinkThick: " we tend to be very selective on what we tell you when it comes to the minor details. Take this as a confession, as an admission of those details you might not necessarily like about Linux."


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Source: Linux Today

UKLinux: "If you've got the enthusiasm to promote it in the village and you think that other people will be interested, then please apply for space."


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Source: Linux Today

CNet: "U.S. regulators, it seems, believe the inherently public nature of open-source code makes it more vulnerable to hackers, leaving "a high burden to demonstrate that it is sufficiently secure.""


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Source: Linux Today

Rediff India Abroad: "Windows fanatics or those used to the MS operating system, however may be disappointed as it runs on a Linux operating system."


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Source: Linux Today

Government Computer News: "An article in the latest issue of the DoD Software Tech News (free registration required) poses an interesting question: Does the Federal Acquisition Regulation demand agencies look at open source software as a possibility when procuring software?"


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Source: Linux Today

ArsTechnica: "The form factor of the computer is indeed small. It's like a small text book with a handle attached to the back side of the computer. There were no ports at the back of the computer, only on the sides. It was not particularly heavy and would be comparable to carrying around two or three paperback novels. The fact that it comes with a soft handle makes it much more comfortable to carry."


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Source: Linux Today

SearchEnterpriseLinux: "A letter from Samba contributor Jeremy Allison confirmed today that the Samba Team has decided to adopt the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licenses for all future releases of Samba."


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Source: Linux Today

DesktopLinux: "When Dell first announced that it would be releasing Ubuntu Linux-powered consumer desktops and laptops, some people saw it as more of a stunt than a serious business move. They were wrong. Dell has already expanded its consumer Linux line, and now it has announced that it will soon be offering Ubuntu Linux systems outside of the United States and for new businesses."


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Source: Linux Today

Go2Linux: "The version 1.4 (Gnarly Gnome) of what their creators have named "Ubuntu Ultimate Edition" is now released.
What is this edition?, well is a Feisty Fawn modified, it has a script that allows you to choose which software you like to install and which not, so you can make your own distro if you like to."


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Source: Linux Today

MarketWatch: "Microsoft worries less about Asia, since it has allowed rampant piracy of its products to continue unabated. In this case, piracy is a weapon against Linux and open source. But where's the profit in this defensive measure?"


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Source: Linux Today

Shift-Backspace: "Slackware is an absolutely fantastic distribution. It is clean, straightforward, and really sticks to the Keep It Simple Stupid principle that the Slackware team fully believes. While I cannot recommend it to beginner users, it can offer a fun challenge for novice users and a great experience for more seasoned users."


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Source: Linux Today

DebianTutorials: "One thing that you will need to get used to is that the programmers often choose completely foreign sounding names to their babies. Like Gnump3d. Gnumpwhaaaaa? How would you know to call a music server Gnump3d? You wouldn't. Nobody would. What was this programmer thinking when (s)he decided to call his (her) music server Gnump3d instead of "Wicked cool Music Server". Who knows? But don't let it get you down."


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "There is support for the NVIDIA GeForce 7025/7050 with NVIDIA's binary display driver and emerging support coming through Nouveau. For this article we had tested the NVIDIA GeForce 7050 graphics on the ASRock ALIVENF7G-HDREADY motherboard. This motherboard uses the GeForce 7050 and nForce 630a MCP and offers ASRock Untied Overclocking, HDCP DVI-D and D-Sub video output, 7.1 channel HD audio, and Gigabit networking."


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Source: Linux Today

DesktopLinux: "With KDE 4 due out in the fourth quarter of 2007, the KDE developers had their work cut out for themselves when they met in Glasgow, Scotland, for their annual worldwide meeting, aKademy 2007."


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Source: Linux Today

PolishLinux: "Last week I'd been given a chance to make minor language correction to the article Understanding the Common User: All should be simple as it can, which suggested that Linux nerds should look down at beginners with care and empathy "


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Source: Linux Today

onefang's rants: "I should start by explaining 'source code.' The languages that computers use internally are very different from the languages that humans use "


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Source: Linux Today

Just Another Tech Blog: "Back in the day, when I first started using Linux, Novell's SUSE Linux was the first distribution that I came across that actually worked with my wireless card "


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Source: Linux Today

The Linux Movement: "Pidgin which was previously called gaim is one of the leading chat clients for Linux users. It runs swell and without a hitch and its even cooler when used with AWN "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes with news that the Samba Team has decided to adopt the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licenses for all future releases of Samba. Follow the link for a FAQ addressed to Samba developers and contributors. "To allow people to distinguish which Samba version is released with the new GPLv3 license, we are updating our next version release number. The next planned version release was to be 3.0.26, this will now be renumbered so the GPLv3 version release will be 3.2.0. To be clear, all versions of Samba numbered 3.2 and later will be under the GPLv3, all versions of Samba numbered 3.0.x and before remain under the GPLv2."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "A great deal of attention is paid to numbers, but rarely does one actually ask what these numbers mean. One problem that many people have been trying to tackle is gauging the extent of use of Free software, including Linux. Questionnaires are not a solution here and neither are statistics, which are usually derived from the wrong data. The following article looks at the various challenges at hand and concludes that the growth rate of Linux is likely to remain an enigma."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced the official release of the 2.6.22 kernel: 'It's out there now (or at least in the process of mirroring out — if you don't see everything, give it a bit of time).' The previous stable kernel, 2.6.21, was released a little over two months ago. New features in the 2.6.22 kernel include a SLUB allocator which replaces the slab allocator, a new wireless stack, a new Firewire stack, and support for the Blackfin architecture. Source-level changes can be tracked via the gitweb interface to Linus' kernel tree."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: eWEEK Linux

In a note from leading Samba developer Jeremy Allison, The Samba Group announced that it is keeping its promise to move its code base to GPLv3.


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Source: eWEEK Linux

Analysis: Master Linux developer, Linus Torvalds, announced on July 8 that the new Linux kernel 2.6.22 is now available. While this new kernel has many new features, it's really more of a bug-fix release.



Updated: Tue Jul 10 23:55:04 2007


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